Director, Applied Behavior Research

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105k - $136k / year

⏰ Full Time

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ASPCA

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1866

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

Healthcare • Consulting • Legal

ASPCA is an organization dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals. They provide services such as animal rescue, veterinary care, and improving animal welfare laws. ASPCA actively advocates for the protection of pets, farm animals, and promotes humane education, working to ensure a safe and nurturing environment for all creatures.

📋 Description

• Design and conduct collaborative internal applied behavior and welfare research projects focused on cruelty case populations and behavior interventions and welfare assessments for shelter dogs and cats • Identify and prioritize research questions with potential impact on organizational priorities and animal welfare • Lead research projects with minimal supervision, scope projects, define roles, establish timelines, and coordinate stakeholders • Complete components of research projects using individual expertise and adapt project scope or goals as needed • Identify audiences and support internal and external communication plans for completed research • Lead or participate in ASPCA-sponsored research initiatives and the annual ASPCA Research Forum • Manage consultants and temporary employees as needed • Mentor interns and junior research colleagues • Communicate research through journal articles, reports, and presentations • Maintain and develop animal welfare subject-matter expertise and provide organizational guidance • Translate expertise into insights supporting ASPCA strategic and programmatic work • Monitor animal welfare research and share findings to drive change • Build partnerships with organizations, universities, and institutions in animal welfare and behavioral biology • Collaborate across the ASPCA to prioritize impactful work and apply data-driven insights to organizational strategy

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in animal behavior field such as applied ethology, behavioral ecology, or animal welfare science required • Minimum of 6 years of professional research experience post-PhD required • Experience writing peer-reviewed scientific publications required • Leadership experience, including managing, mentoring, coaching and/or training others, required • Applied companion animal behavior experience preferred • Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist (CAAB) or ability to become certified within one year of hire • Dr. Sophia Yin’s Low Stress Handling certification required or obtained within 6 months of hire • Ability to apply discipline-specific tools and knowledge to novel animal welfare questions • Ability to translate research to applied audiences; formal science communication experience strongly preferred • Ability to guide teams without direct reporting authority • Knowledge of research forms, experimental designs, and threats to validity • Ability to identify and assess research data sources • Strong statistical analysis skills, including generalized linear mixed models • Proficiency with R, Python, SPSS, Stata, and/or Excel • Data summary and visualization skills • Strong project oversight and management abilities • Ability to work independently in a remote office with minimal supervision • Ability to adhere to protocols and maintain confidentiality • Ability to stand for 8 or more hours on concrete floors and bend, crouch, kneel, move freely, handle animals, and carry/lift research equipment • English language • Ability and willingness to travel up to 15% of the time, sometimes with short notice

🏖️ Benefits

• Affordable health coverage, including medical, employer-paid dental and optional vision coverage • Flexible time off including vacation time, paid personal time, sick time, bereavement time, paid parental leave, and 10 company paid holidays • 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar employer matching up to 4% • Additional 4% employer retirement contribution • Professional development opportunities including classes, on-the-job training, coaching, mentorship, internal mobility, and field-support opportunities